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violations of, or for enforcing or 

implementing, a statute, rule, 

regulation, order, or license, where HUD 

determines that the information would 

assist in the enforcement of civil or 

criminal laws. To third parties during a 

law enforcement investigation, to the 

extent necessary to obtain information 

pertinent to the investigation, provided 

the disclosure of such information is 

appropriate to the proper performance 

of the official duties of the officer 

making the disclosure. 

(J) To a court, magistrate, 

administrative tribunal, or arbitrator 

while presenting evidence, including 

disclosures to opposing counsel or 

witnesses during civil discovery, 

litigation, mediation, or settlement 

negotiations; or in connection with 

criminal law proceedings; or in 

response to a subpoena or to a 

prosecution request when such records 

to be released are specifically approved 

by a court provided order. 

(K) To appropriate Federal, State, 

local, Tribal, or governmental agencies 

or multilateral governmental 

organizations responsible for 

investigating or prosecuting the 

violations of, or for enforcing or 

implementing, a statute, rule, 

regulation, order, or license, where HUD 

determines that the information would 

assist in the enforcement of civil or 

criminal laws. 

(L) To third parties during a law 

enforcement investigation to the extent 

necessary to obtain information 

pertinent to the investigation, provided 

disclosure is appropriate to the proper 

performance of the official duties of the 

officer making the disclosure. 

(M) To another agency or to an 

instrumentality of any governmental 

jurisdiction within or under the control 

of the United States for a civil or 

criminal law enforcement activity if the 

activity is authorized by law, and if the 

head of the agency or instrumentality 

has made a written request to the agency 

that maintains the record, specifying the 

portion desired and the law 

enforcement activity for which the 

record is sought. 

(N) To any component of the 

Department of Justice or other Federal 

agency conducting litigation or in 

proceedings before any court, 

adjudicative, or administrative body, 

when HUD determines that the use of 

such records is relevant and necessary 

to the litigation and when any of the 

following is a party to the litigation or 

have an interest in such litigation: (1) 

HUD, or any component thereof; or (2) 

any HUD employee in his or her official 

capacity; or (3) any HUD employee in 

his or her individual capacity where the 

Department of Justice or agency 

conducting the litigation has agreed to 

represent the employee; or (4) the 

United States, or any agency thereof, 

where HUD determines that litigation is 

likely to affect HUD or any of its 

components. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

Records are maintained in paper and 

electronic storage media. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Records are retrieved by Name, Date 

of Birth, and/or SSN. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

Destroy one year after System of 

Records is placed on inactive list. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

EIV Physical controls include, key 

cards, security guards and Identification 

badges. HUD will secure downloaded 

reports on HUD secure SharePoint site. 

Public Housing Agencies, Multifamily 

Housing Owners/Agents, and Contract 

Administrators must secure 

downloaded data to a secure/locked 

space and/or cabinet. Computer 

terminals are secured in controlled areas 

which are locked when unoccupied. 

Access to automated records is limited 

to authorized personnel who must use 

a password to gain access to the system. 

Administrative controls include 

methods to ensure only authorized 

personnel access to PII. Each EIV user 

must first have access to HUD’ Web 

Access Secure Systems. Each EIV User 

must be re-certified to use the EIV 

System every April and October of the 

calendar year. EIV Technical controls 

include, Encryption of Data at Rest, 

Firewall, Role-based Access Controls, 

VPN, Encryption of Data in Transit, 

User ID and Password, and PIV Card. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting records of 

themselves should address written 

inquiries to the Department of Housing 

Urban and Development 451 7th Street 

SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. For 

verification, individuals should provide 

their full name, current address, and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The HUD rule for contesting the 

content of any record pertaining to the 

individual by the individual concerned 

is published in 24 CFR 16.8 or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals requesting notification of 

records of themselves should address 

written inquiries to the Department of 

Housing Urban Development, 451 7th 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20410–0001. 

For verification purposes, individuals 

should provide their full name, office or 

organization where assigned, if 

applicable, and current address and 

telephone number. In addition, the 

requester must provide either a 

notarized statement or an unsworn 

declaration made under 24 CFR 16.4. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

87 FR 50635, August 17, 2022. 

LaDonne White, 

Chief Privacy Officer, Office of 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30645 Filed 12–23–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–6506–N–01] 

Nonavailability Waiver applicable to 

Domestically Assembled Solar 

Photovoltaics (PV) Panels Referred to 

as ‘‘Solar Modules’’ Under Build 

America, Buy America Manufactured 

Product Provisions as Applied to 

Recipients of Department of Housing 

and Urban Development Federal 

Financial Assistance 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice and request for public 

comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Build 

America, Buy America Act (BABA), this 

notice advises that HUD is proposing to 

issue a temporary, limited nonavailability partial waiver of the 

manufactured product requirements in 

BABA included in the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for 

domestically assembled solar modules 

used in Federal financial assistance 

(FFA) awarded for infrastructure 

projects. This waiver covers multiple 

projects that HUD anticipates will 

involve the installation of solar modules 

with the intent of addressing multiple 

project specific non-availability waivers 

into one document to reduce paperwork 

and support administrative efficiency. 

The narrowly tailored BABA waiver 

proposed in this notice would support 

the establishment of a domestic solar 

supply chain, increase benefits for 


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domestic solar manufacturing, and help 

reduce risks for vulnerable populations. 

HUD is seeking public comments on 

this proposed waiver. 

DATES: HUD published this proposed 

waiver for public comment on its 

website on December 13, 2024. Pursuant 

to section 70914(c)(2) of BABA, HUD is 

soliciting comments from the public on 

this proposed waiver for a period of 

fifteen days from the date published on 

HUD’s web page in this instance. 

Comments on the proposed waiver set 

out in this document are due on or 

before December 28, 2024. HUD will 

consider comments received in response 

to this Notice and announce its 

determination with respect to the 

adoption of this notice, including any 

changes that may be made in response 

to comments through a subsequent 

Notice. The proposed duration of the 

waiver would be from the effective date 

(‘‘Effective Date’’) of the proposed 

waiver until December 31, 2025. The 

waiver applies to solar modules with 

Final Assembly in the United States (as 

defined below in the ‘‘Proposed 

Waiver’’ section). 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments on this 

notice. Copies of all comments 

submitted are available for inspection 

and downloading at 

www.regulations.gov. 

To receive consideration as public 

comments, comments must be 

submitted through one of the two 

methods specified below. All 

submissions must refer to the above 

docket number and title. Commenters 

are encouraged to identify the number 

of the specific question or questions to 

which they are responding. Responses 

should include the name(s) of the 

person(s) or organization(s) filing the 

comment; however, because any 

responses received by HUD will be 

publicly available, responses should not 

include any personally identifiable 

information or confidential commercial 

information. Business confidential 

information can be submitted to 

BuildAmericaBuyAmerica@hud.gov. 

1. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments electronically through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments electronically. Electronic 

submission of comments allows the 

commenter maximum time to prepare 

and submit a comment, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make them immediately available to the 

public. Comments submitted 

electronically through the 

www.regulations.gov website can be 

viewed by other commenters and 

interested members of the public. 

Commenters should follow the 

instructions provided on that site to 

submit comments electronically. 

2. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Comments may be submitted by mail to 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. 

No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile 

(FAX) comments will not be accepted. 

Public Inspection of Comments. All 

comments and communications 

properly submitted to HUD will be 

available for public inspection and 

copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

weekdays at the above address. Due to 

security measures at the HUD 

Headquarters building, an advance 

appointment to review the public 

comments must be scheduled by calling 

the Regulations Division at (202) 708– 

3055 (this is not a toll-free number). 

HUD welcomes and is prepared to 

receive calls from individuals who are 

deaf or hard of hearing, as well as 

individuals with speech or 

communication disabilities. To learn 

more about how to make an accessible 

telephone call, please visit: https://

www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

Copies of all comments submitted are 

available for inspection and 

downloading at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Faith Rogers, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 451 Seventh 

Street SW, Room 10126, Washington, 

DC 20410–5000, at (202) 402–7082 (this 

is not a toll-free number). HUD 

welcomes and is prepared to receive 

calls from individuals who are deaf or 

hard of hearing, as well as individuals 

with speech and communication 

disabilities. To learn more about how to 

make an accessible telephone call, 

please visit https://www.fcc.gov/ 

consumers/guides/telecommunicationsrelay-service-trs. HUD encourages 

submission of questions about this 

document be sent to 

BuildAmericaBuyAmerica@hud.gov. 

I. Build America, Buy America 

The Build America, Buy America Act 

(‘‘BABA’’ or ‘‘the Act’’) was enacted on 

November 15, 2021, as part of the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

(‘‘IIJA’’) (Pub. L. 117–58). The Act 

establishes a domestic content 

procurement preference, the BAP, for 

Federal infrastructure programs. Section 

70914(a) of the Act establishes that no 

later than 180 days after the date of 

enactment, HUD must ensure that none 

of the funds made available for 

infrastructure projects may be obligated 

by the Department unless it has taken 

steps to ensure that the iron, steel, 

manufactured products, and 

construction materials used in a project 

are produced in the United States. In 

section 70912, the Act further defines a 

project to include ‘‘the construction, 

alteration, maintenance, or repair of 

infrastructure in the United States’’ and 

includes within the definition of 

infrastructure those items traditionally 

included along with buildings and real 

property. Thus, starting May 14, 2022, 

new awards of HUD FFA, and any of 

those funds newly obligated by HUD 

then obligated by the grantee for 

infrastructure projects, are covered 

under BABA provisions of the Act, 41 

U.S.C. 8301 note, unless covered by a 

waiver. 

Solar modules are manufactured 

products. Per sections 70912(6)(A) and 

(B) of the Act, manufactured products 

are considered to be produced in the 

United States if (i) the manufactured 

product was manufactured in the 

United States; and (ii) the cost of the 

components of the manufactured 

product that are mined, produced, or 

manufactured in the United States is 

greater than 55 percent of the total cost 

of all components of the manufactured 

product, unless another standard for 

determining the minimum amount of 

domestic content of the manufactured 

product has been established under 

applicable law or regulation. 

II. HUD’s Progress in Implementation of 

the Act Generally 

The IIJA and the Inflation Reduction 

Act (Pub. L. 117–169, Aug. 16, 2022) 

provided historic investments for 

federal infrastructure, including $1 

billion in funding for green retrofits. 

These developments in addition to 

HUD’s base funding, provide an 

opportunity for significant expansion of 

domestic manufacturing capacity for 

products. Since the enactment of the 

Act, HUD has worked diligently to 

develop a plan to fully implement the 

BAP across its FFA programs. HUD 

understands that advancing Made in 

America objectives is a continuous 

effort and believes setting forth a 

transparent schedule of future 

implementation for FFA programs 

provides recipients, stakeholders, and 

industry partners with the time and 

notice necessary to efficiently and 

effectively implement the BAP. HUD 

continues its efforts to implement the 

Act in HUD’s FFA programs consistent 


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with the guidance and requirements of 

the Made in America Office of the Office 

of Management and Budget, including 

guidance concerning compliance with 

the BAP. 

In order to ensure orderly 

implementation of the BAP across 

HUD’s FFA programs, HUD has 

provided public interest, general 

applicability waivers in order to 

implement the BAP in phases in 

connection with the application of the 

BAP in such programs and announced 

a corresponding implementation plan. 

As part of those efforts, HUD has 

published two general applicability, 

public interest waivers covering Exigent 

Circumstances and De Minimis and 

Small Grants; a general applicability, 

public interest waiver applied to Pacific 

Island Territory Recipients of HUD FFA; 

and waivers that remain applicable to 

funds obligated by HUD during the 

relevant periods of applicability, all of 

which can be found at https://

www.hud.gov/program_offices/general_

counsel/build_america_buy_america/ 

waiver. 

III. Waivers 

Under section 70914(b), HUD and 

other Federal agencies have authority to 

waive the application of a domestic 

content procurement preference when 

(1) application of the preference would 

be contrary to the public interest, (2) the 

materials and products subject to the 

preference are not produced in the 

United States at a sufficient and 

reasonably available quantity or 

satisfactory quality, or (3) inclusion of 

domestically produced materials and 

products would increase the cost of the 

overall project by more than 25 percent. 

All waivers must have a written 

explanation for the proposed 

determination; provide a period of not 

less than fifteen (15) calendar days for 

public comment on the proposed 

waiver; and submit the proposed waiver 

to the OMB Made in America Office for 

review to determine if the waiver is 

consistent with policy. 

Section 70914(c) provides that a 

waiver under section 70914(b) must be 

published by the agency with a detailed 

written explanation for the proposed 

determination and provide a public 

comment period of not less than 15 

days. Pursuant to section 70914(d)(2), 

when seeking to extend a waiver of 

general applicability, HUD is required to 

provide for a public comment period of 

not less than 30 days on the continued 

need such waiver. 

IV. Proposed Waiver 

HUD is proposing to issue a 

temporary, limited non-availability 

partial waiver of the manufactured 

product requirements of Section 

70914(a) of the Build America, Buy 

America Act (‘‘BABA’’) included in the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117–58) for domestically 

assembled solar modules used in federal 

financial assistance awarded for 

infrastructure projects. This waiver 

covers multiple projects that HUD 

anticipates will involve the installation 

of solar modules with the intent of 

addressing multiple project specific 

non-availability waivers into one 

document to reduce paperwork and 

support administrative efficiency. 

HUD’s proposed waiver requires 

domestic assembly versus a waiver of 

the full manufactured product 

requirements, which would allow 

assembly to occur outside the United 

States. This waiver is intended to 

provide time needed for domestic solar 

module manufacturing capability to 

meet demand for BABA-compliant solar 

modules by supporting and encouraging 

continued investments while bringing 

the benefits of solar to the HUD’s 

financial assistance recipients. 

This proposed waiver would apply on 

or after the Effective Date of this notice 

until December 31, 2025 for all new 

solar modules with Final Assembly in 

the United States. Solar modules where 

final assembly occurred outside the 

United States are not eligible for 

coverage under this waiver. ‘‘Final 

Assembly’’ means all operations 

involved in the transformation of 

individual solar cells and all other 

module components into a fully 

functional encapsulated module, 

including deposition of electrically 

active PV absorber material (e.g, 

cadmium telluride on glass) etc. For 

recipient expenditures to be covered by 

this waiver, the solar modules will need 

to be installed by June 30, 2026. 

‘‘Installed by’’ means modules being 

permanently fastened to an outdoor 

support structure at the project site. 

HUD proposes to apply this waiver, if 

approved, to all Federal Financial 

Assistance. For Awards and 

amendments that otherwise meet the 

criteria of the waiver but were obligated 

prior to the Effective Date, the waiver 

will apply to eligible expenditures 

incurred on or after the Effective Date of 

the final waiver for the period that the 

waiver is active. 

In accordance with Section 70914(c) 

of the BABA, HUD is providing notice 

that it is seeking a limited, partial 

general applicability nonavailability 

waiver of the BABA manufactured 

product requirements for domestically 

assembled solar modules used in federal 

financial assistance awards for 

infrastructure projects due to the 

determination that compliant solar 

modules are not available in sufficient 

quality or quantity for use in HUDfunded infrastructure projects. The 

Department of Energy conducted market 

research to determine availability of 

BABA compliant solar modules which 

included subject matter expert analysis 

of domestic solar production based on 

announcements and non-public 

manufacturing plans disclosed by 

manufacturers. Based on this market 

research, HUD proposes to find that 

BABA-compliant solar modules are not 

produced in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities for use in HUD-assisted solar 

projects, and will not become available 

in sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities until December 2025 or later. 

This proposed waiver, if finalized, will 

ensure recipients can effectively carry 

out the activities of their award in a 

timely manner while promoting 

domestic solar module manufacturing. 

HUD seeks to issue this waiver on the 

basis of nonavailability in accordance 

with Section 70914(b)(2) of the BABA. 

V. Waiver Justification 

HUD is proposing a temporary, 

limited partial nonavailability waiver of 

BABA manufactured product 

requirements for solar modules to apply 

to the use of domestically assembled 

modules that may incorporate foreign 

components. The United States is the 

second largest market for solar 

hardware, representing about 10%–15% 

of global solar demand. Developing and 

enhancing United States solar 

manufacturing will mitigate global 

supply chain challenges and meet 

decarbonization goals as well as benefit 

United States’ workers, employers, and 

the economy. To reestablish domestic 

solar manufacturing in the United 

States, entities that produce and sell 

solar components will require a holistic 

industrial strategy to offset the 30–40% 

higher cost of domestic solar production 

relative to imported components. A 

narrowly tailored BABA waiver will 

meet immediate solar demands while 

the domestic solar industry expands 

supply. 

Domestically, the United States 

currently has 10,600 MWdc/year 

nameplate production capacity for CdTe 

modules and 47,000 MWdc/yr 

nameplate production capacity for c-Si 

modules. Market research indicates c-Si 

module production capacity was 

historically underutilized for a variety 

of reasons including foreign 

competition, workforce shortages, and 

obsolete production equipment, with 

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and sold in 2023 compared to a 

nameplate capacity of 15,000 MWdc/yr 

at the end of 2023. Capacity for c-Si 

modules has continued growing 

significantly in 2024 and as production 

is ramping, utilization rates are 

expected to grow. As of November 2024, 

domestic c-Si cell production in the 

United States has just restarted and 

production is also anticipated to grow. 

HUD has a portfolio of approximately 

4.5 million public and assisted housing 

units. The HUD portfolio consumes an 

estimated 49,000 Gigawatt-hours of 

energy per year at a cost of $5.5 billion 

in annual utilities. Electricity makes up 

approximately 59% of all energy usage 

and 78% of the utility cost, creating 

significant demand and incentive to 

deploy solar on HUD’s portfolio. This 

demand is anticipated to increase with 

the rise of extreme heat across the 

country and growing need to providing 

cooling for homes. 

There are a significant number of 

grant programs funded by HUD that 

could be used to pay for solar 

installations subject to BABA. Even 

where the funding was obligated by 

HUD prior to being subject to BABA any 

new funding source added to a project 

that becomes subject to BABA might 

make the entire project subject to BABA, 

for example in the Public Housing 

Capital Fund. However, more 

importantly, the demand for solar 

modules for projects funded by HUD 

subject to BABA will derive from 

projects funded not only by HUD itself, 

but also by projects where HUD funding 

is part of the ‘‘Capital Stack’’ of a project 

that may or may not be subject to BABA. 

Two significant examples of such 

programs are the Clean Energy Tax 

Credits and Solar for All. 

A significant driver of demand for 

solar modules stems from the 

Investment Tax Credit (ITC). Projects 

that are funded with the ITC that also 

qualify for additional bonus credits will 

often be located on or directly benefit 

HUD-assisted housing. Under the Clean 

Electricity Low-Income Communities 

Bonus Credit under section 48E(h) of 

the Internal Revenue Code, HUDassisted properties are categorically 

eligible for the highest bonus credit 

available under the allocation of for 

eligible property that is part of a 

qualified low-income residential 

building project also known as Category 

3 facility. It is highly likely, therefore, 

that such projects will further spur 

demand for solar modules purchased 

with HUD Federal Financial Assistance 

that is subject to BABA. Furthermore, 

100% of the 7-billion-dollar Solar for 

All program funded by the 

Environmental Protection Agency must 

be spent in low and disadvantaged 

communities, which are often the same 

communities that receive some form of 

HUD funding subject to BABA and will 

likely be combined with such funding. 

In addition to current production 

capacity, future domestic manufacturing 

indicates growth will result in 

substantially more BABA-compliant 

module supply. As of November 2024 

over $20 billion in planned solar 

investments have been announced at 

over 148 new and expanded 

manufacturing plants for modules, 

module parts and other hardware. U.S. 

Department of Energy subject matter 

experts performed a probabilistic 

analysis of these announcements to 

identify a date when full BABA 

compliance may be achievable. Subject 

matter expert review identified 

technical delays from announced dates 

due to site readiness as well as 

likelihood of project success and 

considered the time required to ramp to 

full production capacities. Overall 

analysis concludes that domestic 

manufactures will likely be capable of 

producing fully BABA-compliant 

modules in sufficient quantities for all 

Federal financial assistance recipients 

no sooner than December 31, 2025. 

Thus, HUD proposes to find that BABAcompliant solar modules are not 

produced in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities for use in HUD-assisted solar 

projects and will not become available 

in sufficient and reasonably available 

quantities until December 2025. 

To support BABA compliance 

verification, HUD is considering stepcertification, which is a type of 

certification process under which each 

handler (supplier, fabricator, 

manufacturer, processor, etc.) of the 

subject products and materials certifies 

that their step in the process was 

domestically performed. Each time a 

step in the manufacturing process takes 

place, the manufacturer delivers its 

work along with a certification of its 

origin. This process is common practice 

for verifying Buy America requirements 

for iron and steel. A solar step process 

may include manufacture of the wafers, 

cells, as well as modules in the United 

States, or equivalent processes for other 

solar manufacturing technologies. 

VI. Impact Absent the Waiver 

Without a waiver, HUD anticipates 

most recipients with solar projects 

subject to BABA will develop, 

implement, and submit unavailability 

waiver packages for solar modules. This 

conclusion is based upon known wellestablished domestic sourcing 

challenges for BABA-compliant solar 

modules. The corresponding 

administrative burden will impact the 

cost and schedule of recipients, and in 

some cases diminish the use of solar 

projects, or, in extreme cases, deter 

overall participation. For those that 

participate and propose solar projects, 

recipient resources will be required to 

perform market research and submit 

unavailability packages. Project 

schedules will need to be extended to 

account for waiver development and 

waiver processing though final 

approval. These anticipated delays 

adversely impact numerous agency 

goals of these projects, including 

climate action and energy justice. 

The absence of a narrowly tailored 

BABA waiver will result in missed 

strategic opportunities to advance goals 

such as those within E.O. 14017 

American’s Strategy to Secure the 

Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy 

Transition and E.O. 14057 Catalyzing 

Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 

Through Federal Sustainability, in 

addition to the goals of E.O. 14005. A 

narrowly tailored BABA waiver will 

support the establishment of a domestic 

solar supply chain. Fundamentally, the 

domestic content provisions in the IRA 

clean energy production and investment 

tax credits, including relating to Internal 

Revenue Code sections 45, 45X, 45Y, 48, 

and 48E, including the domestic content 

bonus credit, constitute the significant 

driver for increasing the overall demand 

for domestic solar modules. Requiring 

full BABA compliance for federal 

financial assistance projects, as opposed 

to the narrowly tailored BABA 

compliance proposed in this waiver, 

would produce limited benefits for 

domestic solar manufacturing while 

potentially placing projects targeting 

vulnerable populations at risk. 

VII. Assessment of Cost Advantage of a 

Foreign-Sourced Product 

Under OMB Memorandum M–24–02, 

agencies are expected to assess 

‘‘whether a significant portion of any 

cost advantage of a foreign-sourced 

product is the result of the use of 

dumped steel, iron, or manufactured 

products or the use of injuriously 

subsidized steel, iron, or manufactured 

products’’ as appropriate before granting 

a waiver. HUD’s analysis has concluded 

that this assessment is not applicable to 

this waiver, because this waiver is not 

based on cost advantage of foreign 

sourced products. 

VIII. Duration of Waiver 

This proposed waiver, if finalized, 

applies to expenditures on solar panels 

after the Effective Date and by December 


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31, 2025, so long as those panels are 

installed by June 30, 2026. 

IX. Solicitation of Comments 

As required under section 70914 of 

the Act, HUD is soliciting comment 

from the public on the proposed waiver 

described in this Notice for a period of 

15 days from the date of publication on 

HUD’s web page. HUD seeks public 

comment from all interested parties. 

Input is sought from the public; 

specifically, stakeholders, including, but 

not limited to, FFA applicants and 

recipients, manufacturers, installers and 

other stakeholders across sectors and 

geographies. In particular, HUD seeks 

comment regarding the scope of this 

waiver and the following: 

• Proposed dates of applicability, 

including effective date of the waiver 

and installed by date. 

• Recommendations and comments 

regarding certification for BABA 

compliant solar modules. HUD is 

considering step-certification, a type of 

certification process under which each 

handler (supplier, fabricator, 

manufacturer, processor, etc.) of the 

subject products and materials certifies 

that their step in the process was 

domestically performed. Each time a 

step in the manufacturing process takes 

place, the manufacturer delivers its 

work along with a certification of its 

origin. 

Relevant information and comments 

will help HUD to understand 

completely the facts surrounding the 

waiver request and the agency’s 

proposed finding of nonavailability. If 

issued, this waiver will be applicable to 

FFA that HUD obligates on or after the 

effective date of the final waiver and in 

connection with the expenditure of 

FFA, which had been previously 

obligated by HUD, throughout the 

applicable waiver period. 

Adrianne R. Todman, 

Deputy Secretary Performing the Duties of 

the Secretary of HUD. 

Appendix 

HUD GREEN AND RESILIENT RETROFIT PROGRAM (GRRP) AWARDEES

Property name Owner entity name 

1 ........... Huntsville Summit ............................................................................ Meridian Commons Ltd. 

2 ........... Kings Road Apartments .................................................................. Los Angeles County Development Authority. 

3 ........... Pullman Point .................................................................................. Carlson Boulevard, L.P. 

4 ........... Liggins Tower .................................................................................. Liggins Tower, LLLP. 

5 ........... Lincoln Terrace ................................................................................ Housing Authority of the City of Wray, Colorado. 

6 ........... Ainakea Elderly Housing Project ..................................................... Ainakea Partners LP. 

7 ........... Scotland Yards I .............................................................................. Avanath Scotland Yard, LLC. 

8 ........... Country Acres Apartments .............................................................. KCG Development LLC. 

9 ........... Edwardsville Court .......................................................................... The Green Dols, LLC. 

10 ......... Bayou Galion ................................................................................... Bayou Galion Limited Partnership. 

11 ......... Sharlo Terrace II ............................................................................. Sharlo II Terrace Apartments, LP. 

12 ......... St. John Berchman’s Manor ............................................................ St. John Berchman’s Apartments, LLC. 

13 ......... St. Bernard III dba Rouquette IV .................................................... St. Bernard III. 

14 ......... Mei Wah Village .............................................................................. Mei Wah Village, Inc. 

15 ......... St. Botolph Terrace ......................................................................... Madison Botolph II Limited Partnership. 

16 ......... Autumn Woods Apartments ............................................................ Autumn Woods LP. 

17 ......... Vista Village ..................................................................................... TWV Limited Partnership, a MN Limited Partnership. 

18 ......... East Columbia Apartments ............................................................. Columbia Development Program, Inc. 

19 ......... Traceway Villas ............................................................................... Mississippi Methodist Senior Services, Inc. 

20 ......... Turner Memorial Retirement Center ............................................... Greene County Retirement Systems, Inc. 

21 ......... Centennial Park ............................................................................... Centennial Park Preservation LLC. 

22 ......... Harbor View Plaza .......................................................................... Harbor View Plaza Ventures LLC. 

23 ......... Seven Greens Apartments .............................................................. Seven Greens Apartments LLC. 

24 ......... Admiral Apartments ......................................................................... Wheeldon Admiral, LLC. 

25 ......... Powell Boulevard Apartments, Inc .................................................. Powell Boulevard Apartments, Inc. 

26 ......... Cobbs Creek NSA ........................................................................... South 54th Street Limited Partnership. 

27 ......... St. George Athenagoras ................................................................. St. George Senior Housing Corporation. 

28 ......... Las Americas Housing .................................................................... Anamar Developers Inc. 

29 ......... Los Flamboyanes Apartments ........................................................ Los Flamboyanes Apartments Limited Partnership. 

30 ......... Pheasant Valley Courtyard ............................................................. Pheasant Valley Courtyard, LLC. 

31 ......... River View Towers .......................................................................... River View Housing Associates LP. 

32 ......... Countryside Village Apartments ...................................................... NHDC Countryside Village, LLC. 

33 ......... Pioneer Court .................................................................................. Pioneer Court Housing. 

34 ......... Wildwood Court Apartments ........................................................... Wild Garden Housing LLC. 

35 ......... Prairie Estates ................................................................................. Valentine Good Samaritan Housing, Inc. 

36 ......... Bay Bridge Housing ........................................................................ Bay Bridge Corporation. 

37 ......... Aspen Court .................................................................................... Aspen Drive Housing, Inc. 

38 ......... Lamont House ................................................................................. Lamont House Inc. 

39 ......... Rouquette Lodge III ......................................................................... Rouquette III. 

40 ......... Lord Stirling Senior Housing ........................................................... TCB Lord Stirling Urban Renewal L.P. 

41 ......... Inglis Gardens at Germantown ....................................................... Germantown Section 811 Housing Corporation. 

42 ......... Savannah Gardens Senior Residences .......................................... Savannah Gardens Senior Residences, Inc. 

43 ......... Jackson Towers .............................................................................. Lake Metropolitan Housing Authority. 

44 ......... Forest Hills Village Apartments ....................................................... Forest Hills Partners II, LLLP. 

45 ......... St. Charles Villas ............................................................................. St. Charles Villas, LP. 

46 ......... Hacienda Del Rio ............................................................................ Hacienda Senior Housing, L.P. 

47 ......... Providence Gardens ........................................................................ Providence Gardens Apartments, LP. 

48 ......... Marina Towers Annex ..................................................................... Marina Annex Housing Partners, LP. 

49 ......... Ocean View Gardens ...................................................................... OAHS Ocean View LP. 

50 ......... Playa Del Alameda Apartments ...................................................... OAHS Playa Del Alameda LP. 


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HUD GREEN AND RESILIENT RETROFIT PROGRAM (GRRP) AWARDEES—Continued 

Property name Owner entity name 

51 ......... Second St. Andrews Apartments .................................................... Second St Andrews Preservation Limited Partnership. 

52 ......... Gateway Village Apartments ........................................................... Gateway Village Apartments LLLP. 

53 ......... Gateway Terrace Apartments ......................................................... Gateway Terrace II LP. 

54 ......... Hillsborough County VOA Living Center Inc ................................... Hillsborough Co VOA Living Center, Inc. 

55 ......... Riverside Park Apartments ............................................................. Riverside Park Apartments LLLP. 

56 ......... Jack Hall Waipahu .......................................................................... JHW Kuhualua Partners LP. 

57 ......... Van Buren Place ............................................................................. Urban Van Buren, LP. 

58 ......... Forest Apartments ........................................................................... Standard Forest Owner LLC. 

59 ......... Madison Avenue Apartments .......................................................... Madison Avenue Associates LLLP (via Purchase Agreement w/ 

SOCAYR Inc). 

60 ......... West Byron Place ............................................................................ Urban West Byron, LP. 

61 ......... Westminster Tower ......................................................................... Westminster Tower LP. 

62 ......... Hickory Townhouses ....................................................................... Hickory Revitalization LLC. 

63 ......... Elmtree Apartments ......................................................................... 2020 Elmhurst Detroit LLC. 

64 ......... Harlem Gateway NSA Site 2 .......................................................... Hargate JV Owners LLC. 

65 ......... Georgetown Village ......................................................................... GV Preservation LLC. 

66 ......... Victory One HDFC .......................................................................... Victory One HDFC. 

67 ......... Burlwood Apartments ...................................................................... Hampstead Burlwood Limited Partnership. 

68 ......... Norgate Plaza .................................................................................. Norgate Development Associates, L.P. 

69 ......... Paul Robeson Houses .................................................................... 1990 ACP Jr. Blvd., LLC. 

70 ......... Lima Towers .................................................................................... Lima Towers Acquisition, L.P. 

71 ......... Delmont Plaza ................................................................................. Delmont Plaza 2024 L.L.C. 

72 ......... Rock Ridge ...................................................................................... Rock Ridge, LP. 

73 ......... City View Towers ............................................................................ Linden Camilla, LLC. 

74 ......... Fountain Heights ............................................................................. B’nai B’rith New Haven LLC. 

75 ......... Luther Terrace ................................................................................. Luther Terrace Inc. 

76 ......... Oakhaven Village Apartments ......................................................... Housing for the Elderly of Adamsville, Inc. 

77 ......... Forest Cove Apts I .......................................................................... Standard Forest Cove I Venture LP. 

78 ......... Forest Cove Apts II ......................................................................... Standard Forest Cove II Venture LP. 

79 ......... Coeur d’Alene Plaza ....................................................................... CDA Plaza, LP. 

80 ......... Lake Forest II .................................................................................. WHPC-Lake Forest II, LLC. 

81 ......... Talbot Bernard Senior Housing ....................................................... Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation. 

82 ......... PRC Westchester Avenue .............................................................. PRC Westchester Avenue LLC. 

83 ......... Carson Square ................................................................................ Carson Square Preservation LP. 

84 ......... The Heights at West Rock .............................................................. The Glendower Group. 

85 ......... 125th & Aurora Senior Housing ...................................................... Low Income Housing Institute LIHI. 

86 ......... Bon Secours New Shiloh I Apartments .......................................... Bon Secours New Shiloh I Limited Partnership. 

87 ......... Parcel 9 Phase I—4% ..................................................................... Parcel 9 Phase I–4 LLC. 

88 ......... Parcel 9 Phase I—9% ..................................................................... Parcel 9 Phase I–9 LLC. 

89 ......... Courtview Towers ............................................................................ Courtview Towers Housing LLC. 

90 ......... Pleasant View Apartments .............................................................. Pleasant View 2024 Limited Partnership. 

91 ......... North Hill Farms 2 ........................................................................... NHF 2021 Limited Dividend Housing Association L.L.C. 

92 ......... Woodlen Place Apartments ............................................................. Woodlen Place Associates, L.P. 

93 ......... Northgate II ...................................................................................... Fair Share Northgatte II Associates, LP. 

94 ......... Crafton Towers ................................................................................ Crafton Towers-AHI, Inc. 

95 ......... Gulfway Manor ................................................................................ Gulfway Housing Partners, LP. 

96 ......... Summit at Lexington Square Apartments ....................................... TXLS, LP. 

97 ......... Round Barn Apartments .................................................................. Round Barn Housing Limited Partnership. 

98 ......... Mid-Columbia Manor ....................................................................... Mid-Columbia Manor. 

99 ......... Parkside ........................................................................................... Parkside Apartments Preservation Limited Partnership. 

100 ....... Garfield Hills Apartments ................................................................ Garfield Hills Preservation Associates Limited Partnership. 

101 ....... Riverside Apartments ...................................................................... Riverside 2023 L.L.C. 

102 ....... Summit at Prince Hall Village Apartments ...................................... TXPHV, LP. 

103 ....... Clement Kern Gardens ................................................................... CK–2003 Limited Dividend Housing Association Limited Partnership. 

104 ....... Chelsea Plaza ................................................................................. Chelsea Plaza 2023 L.L.C. 

105 ....... Stonehedge Place Apartments ....................................................... Stonehedge Apartments LLC. 

106 ....... Fairweather Apartments—Beverly, Danvers, & Peabody ............... Fairweather Preservation Associates Limited Partnership. 

107 ....... Southern Heights ............................................................................. Southern Heights Limited Partnership. 

108 ....... Russel Erskine ................................................................................ Russel Erskine, LP. 

109 ....... Travis Park Apartments ................................................................... Travis Park Preservation LLC. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30692 Filed 12–23–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 


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